Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has said Nigeria will not leave the ongoing Olympics in Rio, Brazil without a medal. A statement by the press officer of Team Nigeria, Tony Ubani, said Dalung said this after receiving a N30 million assistance to the Nigerian Team from a commercial bank.

20 year old Nigerian footballer, Michael Umanyika died yesterday August 15th while training with Azerbaijani First Division club, Zagatala PFK. Azerbaijani is a a country in the Transcaucasian region, situated between Southwest Asia and Southeastern Europe.

According to TMZ, Amber Heard has dismissed her domestic violence restraining order petition against her estranged husband, Johnny Depp, as the case has settled. Read the report below:

Amber and Johnny filed legal docs Tuesday in which Amber withdrew her request for a restraining order. She had alleged Johnny brutalized her on May 21 but now the case is over. She dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning she can never re-file it.

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A former tea boy at a finance firm has made a shocking transformation after successufully working his way up the ladder of success.

Dailymail reports that Robert Mfune, a college student made a thousands of pounds trading from his bedroom while working part-time shifts at McDonald's. He was just 16 when he learned the basics of binary trading by running errands at a finance firm after classes.

Some members of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State on Tuesday, has claimed that they have impeached the chairman for his involvement in the endorsement of an aspirant ahead of the governorship primaries.

The All Progressives Congress in Ondo State on Tuesday erupted in a crisis with some members claiming they have impeached the chairman, Isaacs Kekemeke, for his involvement in the endorsement of an aspirant ahead of the governorship primaries slated for August 27.

To mark his 75th birthday, Former Head of States Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), has said he is not the evil genius that many people consider him to be.

While speaking with journalists at his residence in Minna, Niger state, on Tuesday, former Nigerian head of state, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), says he is not the evil genius that many people consider him to be, adding that he would make the national assembly optional if he had the chance to, because of a need to cut down the cost of governance.

Female Olympian, Shaunae Miller, representing the Bahamas has shocked the world with a dive feat which earned her a place in the competition’s Gold ranking table.

The sprinter who pulled what has been described as one of the wildest and most spectacular finishes in the Rio 2016 competition finished first in the women’s 400m race as she dived her way across the finish line.

According to a Facebook user who shared the photos yesterday,a bride just discovered that her man is not a Chevron staff as he claims to be and called off her wedding in Akwa Ibom.Below is what she wrote…..

Former FIFA president Joao Havelange has died in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 100, according to reports in Brazil.

Havelange was the first non-European chief of world football's governing body between 1974 and 1998, when he was succeeded by Sepp Blatter and received the title of honorary president.

He resigned from the latter largely ceremonial role in 2013 after a report by FIFA's ethics chairman Hans-Joachim Eckert ruled he had taken bribes as part of a scandal involving the now-defunct International Sports and Leisure (ISL) sports marketing agency.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to hold its national convention slated for Wednesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in spite of an interim order stopping the exercise.

Prince Dayo Adeyeye, member of PDP National Caretaker Committee in charge of Publicity gave this indication on Monday.

Adeyeye said that the party’s attention had been drawn “once again to another act of judicial recklessness’’ by the Honourable Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Okon Abang of the purported suspension of the party convention.

A Lagos taxi driver Sunday Agbariko on Monday crushed the leg of an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) in Ketu area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

The driver, driving a Nissan Primera with registration number FKJ 762 QX severely crushed the leg of the officer, Olayemi Isiaka while trying to escape out of LASTMA’s Ketu office.

The driver, in a desperate attempt to escape from the Authority’s crushed the victim who was standing by the entrance gate. Before his attempted escape, Agbariko was arrested by a LASTMA officer for reckless and dangerous driving and also for violating relevant section of the state Traffic law.

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has dissociated himself from unscrupulous activities of some individuals who defraud unsuspecting Nigerians, using phony facebook accounts in his name.

This is contained in a statement signed by the Special Assistant, Media, to the Minister, Olayinka Oyebode, and made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja.

It said the fraudsters, operating through different phony Facebook accounts with the minister’s photograph, usually use the platforms to advertise fraudulent financial aid programmes, business proposals and other nefarious activities.

The Lagos State Association Of Master Bakers and Caterers Of Nigeria, will on Wednesday increase the price of bread by 20 percent.

Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos, the chairman of the association, Prince Jacob Adejorin, lamented the high cost of producing bread and called on the Federal Government to look into the high cost of baking ingredients.

According to him, the prices of baking ingredients like flour, sugar, diesel, salt yeast, kerosene and nylon have tripled without any corresponding measures to reduce the hardship on bakers.

A report on Tuesday in Washington said the majority of U.S. youths had rejected Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump’s strategy of wooing young supporters of Bernie Sanders, former Democratic presidential candidate.

The latest USA Today/Rock-the-Vote poll released showed that in spite of his strategy of patching bipartisan coalition by appealing to young supporters of Sanders, a new poll found that his populist play had failed among millennial.

Adele performed at the Staples Center in Los Angeles over the weekend, where she addressed some rumors about her potentially performing at next year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show (as well as her not being pregnant). “I’d like to tell you I’m not doing the Super Bowl. I mean, come on,” she said. “That show is not about music, and I don’t dance or anything like that. They were very kind, they did ask me, but I did say no.”

Nigerians appear to pin hopes in Dream Team VI, going by the steady manner that the team has been inching toward the medal zone in the ongoing Rio Olympic Games’ soccer event. Even though the team had been dogged by a myriad of problems, thrown at them by the haphazard manner of preparation for big events including the ongoing Olympics, the team has hardly let that come in between them and victory when it mattered most.

A 50-year-old Muslim cleric, Mohammed Yusuf, and daughter, Salamat, 18, were on Tuesday arraigned at a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly distributing poisoned ‘akara’, a local snack, to beggars.

The Yusufs, who are facing two charges of conspiracy and attempted murder, were alleged to have inserted needles in the snack before giving them to beggars.

The Prosecuting State Counsel, Barr. Ben Ekundayo, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on August 5 at about 2pm at Offin Street, Balogun, Lagos Island.

He alleged that the man and his daughter carried out the act with intent to endanger the lives of the beggars.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, has called for an independent inquiry into how a former Chief Protocol Officer to the Minister of State for Defence, Mr Desmond Nunugwo, allegedly died in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

A young woman checking into a Virgin America flight turned up wearing a pair of underpants

The blonde passenger shocked those queuing behind her at the check-in desk after speaking to a member of staff with her bottom exposed. The picture was posted on Reddit by user ,Deftones1 with the caption: 'Meanwhile at the airport'.

The former couple - who have remained close friends ,split last February after dating on and off for seven years.

Reports claimed it was due to his inability to fully commit to marriage.However, his reason is totally different as the Formula One driver has admitted that his passion for cars sometimes means that the women in his life come second.

Popular Nollywood actress,Queen Nwokoye has denied an interview in which she allegedly said Nollywood actresses sleep with producers in exchange for roles..The actress lashed out at Punch for the headline which she calls sensational..

With the figures Kylie Jenner is currently flaunting, it seems to have more hips than Kim. The teen put her curvy figure on display in a black high-cut swimming costume as she celebrated her 19th birthday in Turks and Caicos.Tyga couldn't help but admire her curves.

Kim Kardashian has defended herself in a lengthy blog post after admitting she doesn't think of herself as a feminist.

During the recent BlogHer conference in Los Angeles, Kim, made the admission, which caused more than a few raised eyebrows.Kim insisted she has feminist principles but she doesn't want to be "defined" by her beliefs.

A woman, Fatima Williams, and her neighbour, Waliu Yusuf, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly brutalising a 16-year-old girl, identified only as Kemi, with a hot iron and electric cables.

It was learnt that the Kemi who was brought from Cotonou, Benin Republic, had been reportedly living with Williams, popularly called Alhaja, on Soji Adepegba Close, Allen Avenue, Ikeja,since January 2016 as a housemaid.

It was gathered that the victim was allegedly tortured for not sweeping Williams’ compound last Thursday.

An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Segun Enikuemehin, who dared to ask some military men who were assaulting a civilian to desist from such a dastardly act is currently at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) with one of his eyes totally damaged.

The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon when Mr. Enikuemehin came upon the military men beating a harmless civilian,reports Sahara Reporters.

Convinced that the military officials would beat the man to death if nothing was done, he reportedly walked up the angry soldiers and pleaded that they let the man go or hand him over to the police if he had done something illegal.